Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net: Add BUG_ON() to get_net()

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:52:22 -0800

On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 18:00 +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> Since people may mistakenly obtain destroying net
> from net_namespace_list and from net::netns_ids
> without checking for its net::counter, let's protect
> against such situations and insert BUG_ON() to stop
> move on after this.
> 
> Panic is better, than memory corruption and undefined
> behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  include/net/net_namespace.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
> index 10f99dafd5ac..ff0e47471d5b 100644
> --- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
> @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ void __put_net(struct net *net);
>  
>  static inline struct net *get_net(struct net *net)
>  {
> -	atomic_inc(&net->count);
> +	BUG_ON(atomic_inc_return(&net->count) <= 1);
>  	return net;
>  }

Why not simply use refcount_t instead of duplicating its logic ?